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1  She was found lying in the street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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2  The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand.
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3  The patient shook her head, and stretched out her hand towards the child.
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4  They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever.
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5  She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman, 'by the overseer's order.
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6  For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.
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7  Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.
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8  Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
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9  The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
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10  'You needn't mind sending up to me, if the child cries, nurse,' said the surgeon, putting on his gloves with great deliberation.
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11  The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
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12  If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
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13  So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
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14  The medical gentleman walked away to dinner; and the nurse, having once more applied herself to the green bottle, sat down on a low chair before the fire, and proceeded to dress the infant.
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15  There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
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16  The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in 'the house' who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need.
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17  Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
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